Forties Collection (#90)

Royal Army Medical Corps - demonstration in camouflage. Soldiers carrying a stretcher through the bushes and growth. Location in England - but not known. Picture taken 19th October 1941

Service girls caught on the rocks in Plymouth, Devon. The US soldiers nearby eventually helps them out. Picture taken 9th March 1945

A swimming Bren Gun Carrier seen here taking part in a river assault exercise with infantry and the Royal Engineers, York, Yorkshire, Northern England. Picture taken 22nd July 1942

The ATS. on parade. The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS; often pronounced as an acronym) was the womens branch of the British Army during the Second World War

The RAF, (location unknown) studying their maps. Picture taken 13th June 1943

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, pictured watching tank display whilst on their royal tour of Scotland. Picture taken 5th September 1942

WRENS World War Two. The Womens Royal Naval Service Two named cousins, playing the organ in a Church at Christmas time. Picture taken 22nd December 1942

Picture shows the Ye Olde Wellington Inn in Market Place, Manchester, advertising Cornbrook Ale, brewed in Manchester. Picture caption does not say Manchester, or anywhere, only Market Place

Foreign secretaries at the Three Power Conference at Yalta, Crimea. (Picture) M. Molotov, Mr. Eden and Mr Stettinus, walking 13th February 1945

Mobile church for British solders in France. To facilitate church services for British troops in the filed a number of mobile motor churches have been provided by public subscription

Warship in Western Desert. An armoured car congregation singing hymn at church of England service in the Western Desert, two members of the crew keeping a sharp look-out for enemy aircraft

Manchester - exact area unknown, but picture taken after the December 1940 Christmas Raid on the city. Picture taken circa 1st January 1941

Children evacuated away from the Birmingham area. Location unknown. During World War Two, around three million children were evacuated to safety

Church Parade in Desert. With an Army truck as an alter, and the sky as a dome, these troops attend church parade in the Western Desert. (Picture) The service in progress. 16th August 1941

British Navy fights Disease in the East. (Picture) Members of trying unit dipping for mosquito larvae. 30th April 1945

Two members of the emergency services sift through the rubble after another air raid on Manchester. Picture taken circa 1st January 1941

Indians attend Holy Communion in the desert. A Padre holding Communion at an Indian Division H.Q. in the Western Desert during the 3rd Battle of Libya. 20th August 1942

A Padre holding Communion in the mountains for soldiers. 24th March 1943

Spears mobile medical clinics. (Picture) The clinics stop at the well of Bir Kitne for water. A Shepard is there and dibs him welcome. 6th September 1942

Sweeping a safe route for the merchant fleet. Shopper pom-pom gunners at section station beneath white Ensign. 2nd January 1944

Soldiers carrying the wounded during WWII. 15th February 1941

Sick soldier transferred in mid-ocean for urgent operation from H. M.s Kenya
Sick soldier transferred in mid-ocean for urgent operation from H.M.S Kenya. 4th July 1943

Church Parade in Desert. These troops attend church parade in the Western Desert. (Picture) The service in progress. 21st July 1942

Normandy British soldiers hold service before battle. 14th July 1944

M. Molotov greets Mr. Eden as Britains foreign secretary arrives at Yalta for the three power conference. February 1945

General Marshall (chief of staff U. S. army) Admiral Leahy
General Marshall (chief of staff U.S. army) Admiral Leahy and field Marshall Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the Imperial General staff, in the British H.Q

Children at school on the South East Coast of England, rush to their school shelter during an air raid alert. They ll continue their studies in the air raid shelter. Picture taken 13th May 1943

A mine exploded in the north sea by machine gun fire from British reconnaissance aircraft. 4th May 1940

Interior view showing the bombed out shell of the Free Trade Hall building in Peter Street, Manchester, after being hit by enemy bombs on the night of 23rd December 1940

Picture taken during The Christmas Blitz on Manchester. 22nd December 1940. Rubble, and stone work from a church is seen amongst the ruins. Picture taken circa 23rd December 1940

St Marys Church, damaged after an air raid attack, somewhere in England. Circa 1941

Bishop of Lichfield holds confirmation service. At 2: 30pm on the 11th of July
Bishop of Lichfield holds confirmation service. At 2:30pm on the 11th of July, the Bishop of Lichfield Rev. Woods D.D. held a confirmation service in the Grand Hotel Bagni-Chfen-Ciano

Part of a bomber brought down in Kensington, London. 16th April 1941

Coast defence. Gun crews in action. August 1940

The Armys new rocket weapon. A rocket projector Canadian unit lays down a barrage on the Western Front. The fire-controller in the foreground waits for the order to fire the rockets. January 1945

Reg Jones of Bootle climbing under barbed wire which surrounds four guns in the middle of the golf course at Bootle. Other golfers looking for a ball are L-R Trevor Williams

ME 109 forced down in a cornfield on the south east coast of England. 28th July 1940

An area of Manchester, not named, after another air raid on the city, during World War Two. Picture taken circa 2nd June 1941

St Pauls Cathedral, still standing after the terrible London Blitz of December 1942. But all around it, are the ruins and bomb damage from he air raids. Picture taken 18th January 1942

There are signs of public piety in every Warsaw street whenever the inhabitants die - whether their house was bombed or burned or they were shot - there is always fresh greenery on their graves

Queens House, Greenwich, following an air raid attack. 20th April 1941

In remains of St Lawrence Church Jewry, central London, after it was ruined in The London Blitz. Picture taken circa 1st January 1941

Cheapside, London, following the air raid attacks on 10-11th May 1941

A V. Bomb fell on a building in South England. A man who was trapped under debris on the top floor and badly injured being rescued in a special splint. November 1944

Ostend was attacked by R. A. F. bombers on 3. 10. 41 and bombs are seen bursting o oil
Ostend was attacked by R.A.F. bombers on 3.10.41 and bombs are seen bursting o oil storage tanks and port installations just south of the inner harbour. 7th October 1941

Attacks on the South East by Dive Bombers at Folkestone, Kent. The lifts at Folkestone with the bombs falling in convoy on the sea behind. 26th August 1940

Robot bombs plane falls on dwelling houses and shops, somewhere in Southern England. rescue work and fighting scenes. August 1944

London fire service at work assembling canvas water tank in St Pauls Churchyard. January 1941

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